Sentences with phrase «early groundbreaking work»

Equally iconic, but less well known, are his early groundbreaking work utilising non-traditional materials like hessian, rope and sand.

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LA JOLLA — Clodagh O'Shea, an associate professor in the Salk Institute's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, is among the first recipients of a grant from the Faculty Scholars Program, a new partnership of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Simons Foundation for early career researchers whose work shows the potential for groundbreaking contributions in their fields.

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

But unlike his previous work, Leone eschews the pervasive amorality that gave his earlier films their groundbreaking vitality, choosing not to overhaul western clichés, but to incorporate them into essential components of his majestic mise - en - scène.

With this groundbreaking new feature that seamlessly blends past and present, the real and the imagined, Polley's characteristically unflinching yet compassionate gaze delivers a level of depth and emotion only hinted at by her acclaimed earlier directorial works, Away From Her and Take This Waltz.

A compilation by film historian Leonard Maltin of four episodes from the Disneyland TV anthology series, this 2 - disc set offers a glimpse into the past and a look at the groundbreaking work done by Walt and his «Imagineers» in the early years of the park.

City Year's work with 3rd through 9th graders is guided by a groundbreaking 2006 study from Johns Hopkins University that found that if 6th - grade students demonstrated «early warning indicators» — poor attendance, behavior issues, and low achievement in math and English coursework — their chances of graduating from high school plummeted to 25 percent.

In a potentially groundbreaking financing deal that closed earlier this month, Birmingham Community Charter High School in Los Angeles received $ 3 million for working capital through a Revenue Anticipation Note (RAN) offering.

But many of the passages and monologues in his earlier, groundbreaking work, such as «The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test» and «Radical Chic & Mau - Mauing the Flak Catchers,» are much more poetic in content and vision and much more powerful as poetry than as narrative.

In addition to her impact teaching students all over the U.S. as well as globally, some of her notable achievements include groundbreaking work with community cats in the early 90s through Operation CatNip; advancing the field and credibility of shelter medicine through disease prevention, outbreak response and prioritizing lifesaving over euthanasia; and more recent projects like the Million Cat Challenge.

This November, VMFA presents a groundbreaking exhibition that examines how Johns mined Munch's work in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from abstract painting towards a more open expression of love, sex, loss, and death.

This groundbreaking exhibition, curated by Alex Donis, features the works of five seminal artists and artist groups: Rachel Rosenthal, Barbara T. Smith, Suzanne Lacy / Leslie Labowitz - Starus, Electronic Café International and EZTV; all who have been central to the alternative artist space movement in Southern California since the early 1970's.

In groundbreaking works from the 1970s like Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document (1973 — 79) and Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975), the tenets of conceptual art — with its integration of language and image, its embrace of photography and the video camera, and its unfolding over time and space — are enmeshed with questions of subjectivity, the body, and indeed, emotional affect, subjects generally avoided by an earlier generation of conceptual artists.

Before the Met he was graduate curatorial fellow and curatorial assistant at New York University's Grey Art Gallery, where he worked on a groundbreaking survey of art from New York in the 1970s and early «80s, The Downtown Show: 1974 — 84 (2005).

Co-curated by Alfred Pacquement, the former director of the Centre Pompidou (which staged a groundbreaking retrospective of Hantaï works in 2013), the exhibition primarily tracks Hantaï's early use of his «pliage» method - an intricate technique of folding and knotting an unstretched canvas before Hantaï painted the configuration, unfolded and then stretched it, so that colourful geometric shards and unpainted negative space were revealed.

The early works of David Hockney and the works of Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi (who created the groundbreaking I was a Rich Man's Plaything, 1947) are considered seminal examples in the movement.

Although this artistic technique, in which materials are cut, torn, and layered to create new meanings and narratives, gained acclaim in the early twentieth century through the groundbreaking work of such artists as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Kurt Schwitters, and Jean Arp, it experienced a renaissance (particularly in America) after World War II.

Since first making innovative use of audio and visual technology in the early 1980s, her groundbreaking installations, multi-screen videos and audio works have achieved international recognition.

Featuring more than 120 works made over the past 50 years, the exhibition includes the artist's photo works combining text and image, early assemblage sculptures, and his groundbreaking environments Al's Cafe (1969) and Al's Grand Hotel (1971), participatory projects that helped put Los Angeles on the map as a center for Conceptual art.

In this essay by Hans Ulrich Obrist, originally published in Phaidon's Defining Contemporary Art, the esteemed curator discusses No Ghost Just a Shell, the groundbreaking collaborative work that put the pair on the map and introduced the art world to AnnLee, one of the art world's most famous fictional characters of the early aughts.

Wendell Castle's exploration of form and function blurs the boundaries between art, craft and design and has changed the way we look at furniture today.The first major investigation into his iconic and groundbreaking early work in more than 20...

The first major investigation into his iconic and groundbreaking early work in more than 20 years, this exhibition surveys the renowned American designer's wood and fiberglass objects, and presents related materials from his archives.

In 1981, Basquiat was invited to join the gallery run by Annina Nosei, who had been greatly impressed with his work after seeing it in the groundbreaking New York / New Wave show at PS1 earlier that year.

The 2007 exhibition «Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955 — 1965 ″ ³ at Kunstmuseum Basel presented the groundbreaking early work...

Beginning in the 1960s, McCracken exhibited steadily in the United States and abroad, and his early work was included in groundbreaking exhibitions such as Primary Structuresat the Jewish Museum, New York (1966), and American Sculpture of the Sixties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1967).

Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture at Tate Modern will trace the works of the groundbreaking US - born sculptor, born in 1898, from his early years entertaining the bohemians of inter-war Paris with works such as Calder's Circus.

An important American painter who first came to prominence in the early 1950s, Joseph Glasco's career began with his inclusion in a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art entitled Fifteen Americans, which also featured the work of William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still.

Among the exhibition's highlights are two new site - specific window and wall pieces and the groundbreaking early works Electromagnetic Energy Field (1968), Closed Gallery (1969), Inert Gas Series: Helium (1969), Marcuse Piece (1972), and Invitation Piece (1972 — 73).

Lake's groundbreaking early work includes «A Genuine Simulation of...» (1973 — 74), a series of photographic self - portraits retouched with Covergirl makeup, and Miss Chatelaine (1973), a grid of black - and - white photos of the artist, each embellished with a different hat or head of hair cut from Chatelaine, a Canadian women's magazine.

Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut - outs, made from the early 1940s until the artist's death in 1954, this publication presents approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisse's colorful and innovative final chapter.

The Armory presents a series of unrealized, never - before shown, and groundbreaking early works (produced from 1971 through 1989) examining Glassman's musings with the mundane.

This groundbreaking exhibition of Keith Haring's early work is co-organized with the Kunsthalle Wien.

These groundbreaking early works, often folded and crumpled while the paint was still wet, stand apart from the typical output of Gilliam's Color Field contemporaries, utilizing canvases with beveled edges that break the 2 - D plane.

The largest of these works, Barbara in Spiral Heaven, 1989, carries traces of the artist's hard - edge paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as his groundbreaking quilted canvas constructions of the mid - to late 1970s.

While Rhoades» groundbreaking works found early recognition in Europe and New York, the artist spent the entirety of his career in Los Angeles, where he lived and worked until his untimely death in 2006 at the age of 41.

On view through May 20, 2012, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works from Downey's expansive career, from his early experimental work with art and technology to his groundbreaking video art from the 1970s through the 1990s, the exhibition will include drawings, paintings, video and photographic installations, and the artist's notebooks, which have never before been on view.

Dan Flavin began in the early 60's to create works using strips of neon, filling an entire room with neon light at Documenta 4 in 1968, a groundbreaking move which in many ways harked back to Duchamp's readymades.

This monograph — the first since 1972 — offers a retrospective view of Krushenick's work from the 1960s to the 1990s, from the loose geometries and web - like forms of his early paintings to the artist's groundbreaking experiments in Pop abstraction, which have lost none of their relevance, freshness and energy.

Just as the nearly 700 photographs from Muybridge's groundbreaking publication Animal Locomotion, acquired by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1887, became the foundation for the institution's early interest in photography, the Key Set of more than 1,600 works by Stieglitz, donated by Georgia O'Keeffe and the Alfred Stieglitz Estate, launched the photography collection at the National Gallery of Art in 1949.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

Beginning with the «Protractor Series» of the 1960s through the «Bali Series» of the early 2000s, the exhibition articulates Stella's groundbreaking fusion between painting and sculpture as illustrated by one major work from eight of the artist's most important series.

Also presented are two programs of rarely screened early work by Jean Rouch, the groundbreaking ethnographic documentarian, one devoted to his films in Niger and Mali and the other to his studies of architecture.

Jacqueline Serwer, chief curator of NMAAHC, and curator Tuliza Fleming have assembled an impressive collection of early works, modern and contemporary art at the groundbreaking institution, including paintings by Thomas, Simpson and Sherald, an many other women artists, on view in the inaugural exhibition «Visual Art and the American Experience.»

(New York, January 11, 2013) On April 12, 2013, the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will open a groundbreaking new exhibition: Paul Thek and His Circle in the 1950s, which for the first time, examines the iconic American artist as a young man, placing him within a group of friends and lovers that provided an adoring audience and creative influence for his earliest works.

The retrospective in the Neue Galerie Graz focuses on Pistoletto's early works, which were groundbreaking at their time and to be seen in context with movements such as Pop Art, Minimalism, or Conceptual Art, as well as socio - cultural changes in Italy.

Voulkos» work in this show comprises three iconic «Stack» pieces, an early «cut out» vessel, and a groundbreaking deconstructed vessel from 1956.

Rauschenberg's groundbreaking work of the 1950s and 1960s preceded Pop art and Neo-Dadaism, and much of the Minimalist and Conceptual art of the last five decades is enormously indebted to Rauschenberg's early discoveries.

Our early works by Robert Rauschenberg, our great works by Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Jay DeFeo, Haim Steinbach, Ed Kienholz, to name just a very few, are acquisitions stemming from Walter's groundbreaking exhibitions and his extraordinary relationships with artists and collectors.

Across Ontario, we are building a stronger community and movement for early learning and child care that recognizes diverse and groundbreaking work from Windsor to Wawa!